In order to effectively feign post‐traumatic stress disorder, a person needs to confabulate an exposure narrative and to fabricate symptoms of high distress. The Verifiability Approach (VA) is a lie‐detection method based on the notion that truth tellers’ narratives include more verifiable (checkable) information than liars’ narratives. The Self‐Report Symptom Inventory (SRSI) is a measure of over‐reporting, and it includes genuine symptoms and pseudosymptoms that are likely to be endorsed in fabricated symptom reports. In this study, we examined whether the VA can help discriminate the fabricated exposure narratives, and whether the SRSI can aid screening for symptom over‐reporting.

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验证现场，报告症状：在检测虚假PTSD声明中测试可验证性方法和SRSI

为了有效地装扮创伤后应激障碍，一个人需要捏造暴露的叙述并捏造高度痛苦的症状。可验证性方法（VA）是一种谎言检测方法，其基于这样一个概念：真相讲述者的叙述比说谎者的叙述包含更多的可验证（可检查）信息。自我报告症状清单（SRSI）是对过度报告的一种度量，它包括可能在虚假症状报告中认可的真实症状和假症状。在这项研究中，我们检查了VA是否可以帮助区分虚假的暴露叙述，以及SRSI是否可以帮助筛查症状过度报道。